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“Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.”

Different States Feelings Grief Stage Wave

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?”

“You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.”

Different States Regulation

Author:Antonin Scalia

“Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.”

Ifs Mind Different Sometimes States Wisdom Powerful Buddhism Draws Eternity State Of Mind Very Powerful Different Directions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.”

Should Different States Character America Night Nations Common Watches Republican Sitting Democrat Backgrounds Sparks One Night Public Good

Author:Mark Udall

“In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.”

World Should Different States Form Humanity Differences Moral Democracy Bases Deserving

Author:Roberto Unger

“There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.”

Inspirational Mind Different States Universe Buddhism Essence Infinity State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.”

Different States Past Awareness Buddhism Opening Serpent Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.”

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Author:Al Franken

“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.”

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Author:Claire McCaskill

“For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.”

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Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.”

Want Said Different States Law Deals Support Groups Industry

Author:William Jackson

“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.”

“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.”

Mind Different States Whole Shows Awareness State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.”

Mind Different States Body Form Forever Buddhism Essence State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.”

Mind Different States Opportunity Views Higher Karma State Of Mind Different Views All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our necessities, states, conditions. And as we are all various and different from one another, more or less, so the law by the immediate operation of divine grace in the soul, is suited to every individual according to his condition.”

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Author:Elias Hicks

“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.”

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Book:Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.”

Mind Different States Moving Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind Do It Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.”

Ifs Mind Different States Done Happens Individual Causes Teacher Prepared Enlightened State Of Mind Homework

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.”

Mind Different Self States Process Teacher Teaching Enlightened State Of Mind Lengthy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.”

Knows World Mind Different States Helping Joy Suffering Teacher Wheels Enlightened State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.”

Mind Different States Views Thousand Ten Buddhist State Of Mind Introduction Cosmology Zen Buddhist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.”

Way Mind Different States Seeing Thousand Ten Different Ways State Of Mind Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.”

Mind Different States Views Thousand Ten Essence State Of Mind Introduction Different Views

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.”

Mind Different States Levels Study Awareness Thousand Ten State Of Mind Introduction Different Place Different Levels Different Roads

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.”

Mind Different States Ability Seeing Perception Wander State Of Mind Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.”

People Different States Goes On Circus

Author:Jim Capaldi

“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.”

“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.”

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Author:James Green

“It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.”

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Author:Ed Miliband

“The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.”

Source: All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”

“Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.”

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Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.”

Source: The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens

“[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.”

Men Mind Different States Young Animal Race Movement State Of Mind Different Races

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?”

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Author:Doris Lessing

“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.”